ART TRANSPORT 2024
Medium: Screen print on canvas
Dimensions: 270 × 210 cm

My fascination with mobility — the automobile as a symbol of freedom, a technological marvel, and at the same time a site of catastrophe and societal tension — is a recurring theme throughout my work.

Since several years, I have been archiving my own speed trap photographs, mostly taken during art transports when delivering works to exhibitions. This ongoing collection documents unintended moments where personal movement and public surveillance intersect.

In the summer of 2023, while visiting the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in preparation for an upcoming exhibition, I encountered Andy Warhol’s White Disaster from his Death and Disaster series. Warhol’s engagement with themes of accident, death, and mass media — particularly his use of mechanical reproduction techniques to emphasize emotional distance — deeply resonated with me. Confronted with the burning white car in Warhol’s image, I was immediately reminded of one of my own photographs: a radar image capturing my white Mercedes. My very own "White Disaster."

Inspired by this historical dialogue, I reinterpreted one of my radar images through the lens of Warhol’s aesthetic strategies — translating it into a large-scale screen print on canvas under the title ART TRANSPORT.

Parallel to the canvas work, I developed a series on paper, experimenting with the layering and combination of multiple prints, further exploring the tension between individuality and seriality, spontaneity and mechanical reproduction — core concerns of Pop Art and contemporary visual culture alike.